On Friday’s World News on ABC, correspondent Jonathan Karl informed viewers of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s unsubstantiated charge that Mitt Romney has not paid taxes in 10 years, with the ABC correspondent dismissing the accusation as “outrageous and apparently unfounded.”

Karl went on to note that Reid “offered not one shred of evidence, drawing ridicule from late night comedian Jon Stewart.”

As he theorized that Reid was trying to bait the GOP presidential candidate into releasing more of his tax returns, Karl then revisited the subject of Romney’s taxes and the GOP candidate’s refusal to tell ABC’s David Muir whether he had ever paid “lower than 13.9 percent.”

Below is a transcript of the relevant portion of the Friday, August 3, World News on ABC: